What is Affordable Housing? is a great interactive map of NYC that makes a really complex set of data easy to grok.
The beautifully designed toolkit consists of the interactive map above, a downloadable pdf guidebook, and a rearrangeable felt chart*:
The Envisioning Development Toolkit is a set of teaching tools designed to help experts and laypeople communicate. Advocates, policy wonks, community board members, developers, and others can use the tools as a centerpiece for workshops and conversations that describe and clarify problems and propose and communicate solutions.
The Toolkit is visual, tactile, and interactive. Each tool translates abstract concepts and language into straightforward activities and physical objects that let people learn by looking, doing, and listening to each other. Participants teach themselves and others as they use the tools. Concepts and jargon turn out to be less complicated than they seem.
It’s put together by the Center for Urban Pedagogy, an organization that uses the power of visual arts and design to help people communicate about urban issues. I highly recommend downloading the book (pdf) and flipping through, it’s absolutely fascinating, easy to read, and important to understand.
*which I first came across (and loved!) a few months ago while exploring the Center for Architecture with Liza!
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